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The Constitution doesn't expressly guarantee citizenship just because a child is born here, Fourteenth Amendment or otherwise. That's a common misconception. Nor has the Supreme Court ever stated so. About the only thing it has said is in fact citizenship is provided if the baby is born here, and the parents are subject to a foreign country and live here permanently (no migrant workers), and they are here on business. Pretty narrow definition.
The Arizona law, if enacted, is clearly designed to go to the US Supreme Court for precedent.
None of this really addresses the core problem, which is employers continuing to break the law to save money. That attracts trade in illegals. If employers were heavily fined/imprisoned for hiring undocumented workers there would be near-ZERO illegal immigration. Simple as that.
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